1717-A sermon-on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.

1774-American Revolutionary War-The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.

1822-Chios Massacre|The massacre of the population-of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.

1854-Commodore (United States)|Commodore-Matthew Perry (naval officer)|Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda, Shizuoka|Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.

1910-Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent-

1913-The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg-Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonzert.

1917-The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies-after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.

1931-TWA Flight 599-crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.

1933-The Civilian Conservation Corps-is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.

1942-World War II-Battle of Christmas Island|Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.

1945-World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1-the world's first operational Turbojet|jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.

1949-The Dominion of Newfoundland-joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Provinces of Canada|Province of Canada.

1951-Remington Rand-delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.

1957-Upper Volta Territorial Assembly election, 1957|Elections to the Territorial Assembly-of the French colony French Upper Volta|Upper Volta are held. After the elections Unified Democratic Party|PDU and Voltaic Democratic Movement|MDV form a government.

1958-In the Canadian federal election, 1958|Canadian federal election-the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.

1959-The 14th Dalai Lama-crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.

1964-A 1964 Brazilian coup d'état|coup d'état in Brazil-establishes a Brazilian military government|military government, under the aegis of general Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco|Castelo Branco.

1966-The Soviet Union-launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.

1970-Explorer 1-re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.

1979-The last British soldier leaves the Malta|Maltese Islands-Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).

1980-The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad-operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.

1985-The first WrestleMania-the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York.

1986-Six metropolitan county-councils are abolished in England.

1990-Approximately Poll Tax Riots|200,000 protestors take to the streets-of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll tax (United Kingdom)|Poll Tax.

1991-Georgian independence referendum, 1991-Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.

1992-The {{USS|Missouri|BB-63|6}}, the last active United States Navy battleship-is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.

1994-The journal ''Nature (journal)|Nature-' reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete ''Australopithecus afarensis'' skull.

2004-Iraq War in Anbar Province-In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being 31 March 2004 Fallujah ambush|ambushed.